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Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement. In terms of performance, the major categories are live dance music and recorded dance music.

Dance music works often bear the name of the corresponding dance, e.g. waltzes, the tango, the bolero, the can-can, minuets, salsa, various kinds of jigs and the breakdown. Often it is difficult to know whether the name of the music came first or the name of the dance.

Nowadays, The term “dance music” is often used for more commercial forms of electronic music. It is also associated as any form of music is danced to, spanning genres of pop, hip-hop, house, techno, disco, electro and so on.

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dance gigs in United States • view all

August 2008
Tomorrow (Thursday 28 August 2008)
Kenny Chesney LeAnn Rimes	Cruzan Amphitheatre West Palm Beach, United States	2 people attending Add shout Buy Tickets
Friday 29 August 2008
Kenny Chesney LeAnn Rimes, Miranda Lambert	Ford Amphitheatre Tampa, United States	4 people attending Add shout Buy Tickets
Saturday 30 August 2008
Cher	The Colosseum at Caesars Palace Las Vegas, United States	2 people attending Add shout
September 2008
Monday 8 September 2008
Daddy Yankee	Patriot Center Washington DC, United States	5 people attending Add shout
Thursday 11 September 2008
Kenny Chesney LeAnn Rimes	Verizon Wireless Ampitheatre St Louis, United States	3 people attending Add shout Buy Tickets
Saturday 13 September 2008
Kenny Chesney LeAnn Rimes, Keith Urban, Gary Allan, Luke Bryan	Lucas Oil Stadium Indianapolis, United States	6 people attending Add shout

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Dai6kan wrote:
yesterday evening

This is what was the original purpose of music. Fuck your pretentious wankery. Good music is music that makes you move, not that makes you think or relax. Best music for that doing is NO music. If you listen anything else then dance music you're missing the whole point of music!

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edsongo wrote:
12 days ago

musica é tudo de bom

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Tipheret wrote:
20 days ago

Well... I like dancing xD

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cachifus2 wrote:
23 days ago

The besttttt!!... Thank you by exist :D

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rufien wrote:
last month

Standing in front of the word music////

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